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Alan Furst has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept…
• Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually…
• And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what…
• You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
• Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the…
• I don't inflict horrors on readers.
• I invented the historical spy novel.
• I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
• I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre…
• I read very little contemporary anything.
• I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
• I'm not really a mass market writer.

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